Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

General David Mark Can Become President

 

Very few people realise that if anything happens to Goodluck Jonathan, (be it the Abiola flavoured tea or a Yaradua styled vacation), General David Mark becomes Acting President of Nigeria. Yes, the Senate President is next in line after Jonathan. That will be the return of the Military, agbada or no agbada. Make no mistake, [...]

President Turai Yar’Adua And The Shame Of Nigeria

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As we watch from the sidelines, the future of Nigeria and the peace of Africa is being toyed with. The admirably tough and reprehensibly selfish wife of the president has taken over government (it has been reported that she commands the Army). This has been possible only because of the support of dirty [...]

Redefining Terror: Was Joseph Andrew Stack’s Act Terrorism?

An American planned & executed a terrorist act on American soil. He actually flew a plane into a building! So I guess America will now join Nigeria on the list of ‘Countries of Interest’. Oh, I forgot, it can’t be classified as Terrorism, Joe Stack doesn’t have Abdul in his name.

According to WolframAlpha which sources [...]

#LightUpNigeria vs. #NigerianGrammar Exposes The Problem With Nigerians

Why does #NigerianGrammar succeed while #LightUpNigeria fails to trend on Twitter? 
Although LightUpNigeria is for a VERY serious cause, had a long and great campaign plan and quite a strong campaign base, (it had the full support of heavy weight Nigerian Twitterers like  Ebuka Bigbrother, Eldee made a Video, Bella wrote a post your [...]

Google Vs. China: My Thoughts On Why The Chinese Did It.

Google has threatened to pull out of China citing human rights, security breach backed by the government, etc. and it is really a big deal! Below are my thoughts.
In my humble and simplistic view EVERYTHING happening in the world is a big chess game between the US, China, Russia and United Kingdom (hahahaha!! Of course [...]

How Did all Nigerians become terrorists?!

When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab almost blew up the plane in Detroit, I raised an alarm on Facebook (like tens of thousands of other Nigerians) saying Nigeria was in a mess. My friend Sayed chided me for screaming “the sky is falling” saying “how can we be afraid that the 140 million people of Nigeria be [...]